[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 106.7 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 106.7 Travels in India (Ball) 106.7 - **Language:** English ### [106.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.7) I saw plainly that this request troubled them, for on the one side they feared punishment and on the other they were afraid lest I might prevent them from making another sale : this would have been a great loss to these poor people, who, whether they do or do not sell, are obliged to pay the King, for the farm, 6000 old pagodas, which amount to 45,000 livres of our money. Fifteen days afterwards or thereabouts, not having thought anything further about them, three of them knocked at my door before daylight. As soon as they had entered my chamber, where I was still in bed, they asked me if all my servants were foreigners. As I had none from the town, and they were all either Persians or from Surat, I told them they were all foreigners, upon which they withdrew without replying to me. Half an hour afterwards they returned with six of these goats, which I examined at my leisure. It should be said that they are beautiful animals, very tall, and having fine hair, like silk. As soon as the goats were safely in my hall, the eldest of the three merchants who had brought them, beginning to speak by paying me a compliment, told me that since I had not been willing to take the present which they wished to make me, for having procured the sale of so large a parcel of bezoar, at the least I would not refuse these six goats which they gave me with their whole hearts ; but as I did not wish to take them entirely as a gift, as they desired, I asked what the value of them was ; - [Previous: 106.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.6) - [Next: 106.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.8) - [Up: 106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.7) · Pramāṇa